Welcome to the CEDAR Lab!
About the Lab
The CEDAR (Couples’ Experiences with Diversity and Adversity in Relationships) Lab is led by Dr. Lydia Emery at the University of Chicago. The lab studies links among close relationships, social class, and the self. Relationships are fundamental to how people navigate their social worlds and understand who they are. How do relationships function, and do the ways people experience their relationships differ based on the social class contexts and personal identities they being to their relationships? Research in the lab uses a combination of longitudinal, daily diary, experimental, and behavioral methods to answer these kinds of questions. To learn more, read about our research or check out our recent publications.
News
New Paper about Contextual Approaches to Social Class
We have a paper in press at the Journal of Social Issues with Nicole Stephens and Sarah Townsend about the value of taking a contextual approach to understanding social class. We describe what it means to take this kind of approach, and how it might yield new insights...
New Paper about Attachment and Couple Identity Clarity
We have a new paper in press at EJSP with Erica Slotter, Alexis Audigier, and Wendi Gardner about attachment avoidance and couple identity clarity. People who are high on attachment avoidance struggle to maintain a clear sense of who they and their partner are as a...
Mystie Saturday Joins UChicago First-Year Scholars Program
First-year PhD student Mystie Saturday has joined the 2024-2025 cohort of First Year Scholars in the Social Sciences Division. Congrats, Mystie!